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Hydrogen Energy Takes Off: Turning Organic Solid Waste into Energy Author/Source: Lanxi Ecology and Environment Date: November 29, 2021 Clicks: 20 On November 22, Jinhua’s first hydrogen-powered bus route was launched; it takes only 10 minutes to fill the tank with hydrogen, and the bus can travel over 400 kilometers. That’s right; the hydrogen used to power the first batch of hydrogen-powered vehicles was supplied exclusively by Zhejiang Fengdeng Green Energy Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. To jointly promote the development of hydrogen energy applications in Jinhua City, Fengdeng Green Energy Environmental Protection and Sinopec Zhejiang Branch signed a supply agreement after multiple rounds of negotiations. To date, they have supplied 6,600 cubic meters of high-purity hydrogen to the hydrogen refueling station in Wucheng District of Jinhua, providing the energy needed for the operation of the first batch of hydrogen-powered vehicles. Using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles offers advantages such as cleanliness, environmental friendliness, efficiency, and safety. However, the high production costs of hydrogen have always been a bottleneck to the expansion of the hydrogen energy industry. Fengdeng Environmental Protection’s integrated technology for producing hydrogen from industrial organic solid waste, thereby reducing pollution and carbon emissions, overturns the traditional notion that \"hydrogen production is expensive and difficult.\" By utilizing 14 major categories and 155 subcategories of hazardous waste generated in industries such as pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and printing and dyeing, a pressurized fluidized bed gasification process is employed at temperatures over 1,300 degrees to break the molecular bonds of these hazardous wastes. This allows them to be reorganized into syngas that has practical value, which can then be further processed to produce high-value products such as clean energy in the form of hydrogen, ammonium bicarbonate as a raw material for lithium batteries, and dry ice for preservation purposes. This approach not only achieves environmental benefits through proper waste disposal but also generates economic benefits by turning waste into resources. Due to its green, environmentally friendly, low-carbon, and circular characteristics, this technology has been included in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s list of 20 key low-carbon technologies for the raw materials industry, and it has also been selected as one of the advanced and applicable technologies for the construction of waste-free cities nationwide.